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You are right, it wasn’t just the railways, but the entire atmosphere of those days. In the 50’s in the North East of England, your summing up was spot on. As a child I remember the circus arrived at the station, and then ALL the animals and people associated walked from the station to the...

Agree totally ........you didn’t necessarily need to be there in steam days, the attraction and wonder of the large steam loco’s (and smaller ones) these days still gets well into the youngsters as well as us older people, and if “railway enthusiasts” are to survive, it is obviously these young...

My first post on here, and couldn’t help but get in on such a great discussion. I started in 1957 at a place called Boldon Crossing on the Newcastle - Sunderland -Middlesbrough Line, and my first ever locomotive seen was 60860 Durham School. (A named V2...How’s that for what was the beginning...